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morning when they were gone after sahnon she started running in tlie 

 opposite direction. When they came home at midchiy the grizzly- 

 bear people missed her. The woman's dress had rotted up there. 

 After she had crossed one mountain she glanced behind her. It 

 looked dark with grizzly bears. When they gained on her she began 

 crying for her life. She came out on the edge of a lake. In the mid- 

 dle of this big lake a canoe was floating wearing a dance hat. It said 

 !o her, "Run this way into the water." Then she ran into the water 

 toward it. She was pulled in, and it went up with her into the sun. 



The sun's sons had married a cannibal." Whomsoever the}^ mar- 

 ried never lasted long before they killed her. Now, however, they 

 liked the one they had just married. To make way for her they killed 

 the cannibal. They killed her over a Tsimshian to\\m. They chopjied 

 her into very fine pieces. Tliis is why there came to be so many canni- 

 bals there. They could see the Tsimshian tow^l. When the sun got 

 straight up over her father's town they said, "Here is your father's 



xat ga naade', gonaye' a'dawe AdakA'dmawe yut wudjixi'x. 



salmon after when they started when they in exactly the opposite away she ran. 



were going went direction 



Yl'giyi ke aa'dawe dnite/x qoya'oduwaci Xuts! qoa'uitc. Yaq! 



At midday up when they came for her they searched grizzly bear tribe. At this 



place 



ke uwai.lA'k duLla'ke yucfi'wAt. De Le(|! ca kAnA'x yawucixi'awe 



up had rotted her dress the woman's. Now one mountain across when she had run 



qox awuLige'n dui'tde. Le qage't vax gii'awe yati' dui't xuts! 



back she looked behind her. Then it was dark like as if it was to her grizzly 



bear 



5 ([oa'ni. Ackii' yAx yagaa'dawe ciayide'kdaga'x. Akiayaxe' djlk 



tribe. On her like when they were she began to cry for life. On the edge of out 



gaining a lake 



udjixi'x. Yu'a i.en A'di glylge't gwayu' hxa'c yu'yak" cAdaku'q! 



she ran. The lake big of it in the middle was was floating a canoe a dance hat 



withhighcrown 



Aca'. "Ha'nde hint ici'x" yuacia'osiqa. Le aka'de hint wudjixi'x. 



on its Thiswiiy into the you run", what it said to her. Then to it into the she ran. 



head. " water " water 



Yax wuduwaye'q. TcIulc' Acl'n dekl't wudzixA'q gAgfi'n tut. 



From it they pulled her in. Then with her far up it came to go sun into. 



LuqAna' Asi^ui' liAs H'waca yu'gAgan ye'tqli. Has A'gacan Le'lsdji 



Cannibal it was they married the sun's sons. They when they never 



married 



10 hAs ulsa'k". Le sadJA'qx. YidA'ti fi'yi qo'aawe ctu'ga.s a'odica. 



they lasted long. Then they always Now it was, however, they liked they started 



killed [thein.] [the one] to marry. 



A'ya aq dA'xawe hAs fi'wadJAq vu'hlqAna'. TsIutsxA'n fi'ni kina'q! 



To make way for her they killed the cannibal. T.simshian town on top of 



ayu' hAs a'wadJAq. Tclaye'guski wucdA'x awulisu'. Atcawe' luqAna' 



it was they killed. Very small apart they chopped That is why cannibals 



her. 



a'cayAndihen. TsIu'tsxAn a'ni Le klawe'lguha. Dul'c il'ni akma' 



began to be so man V Tsimshian town then thev could see. Her father's town on top of 

 [there]. it 



oEuqAna', probably equivalent to Kwakiutl Lo'koala. 



